as in inevitable
impossible to avoid or evade
the ineluctable approach of winter had many worried about the cost of heating their homes
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Ever Seen' Civil War belongs more to the tradition of battle movies like The Thin Red Line or Apocalypse Now, in which war is the mysterious, ineluctable manifestation of the American will — perhaps its unconscious will.
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Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 11 Apr. 2024
Second, the history of third-party presidential candidacies is one of ineluctable failure.
—Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2024
A certain ineluctable logic governs this collision of worlds: television’s foremost fantasia of Birkin bags, spa days, private-jet travel, and real-life Malibu beach houses infiltrating the most plastic realm there is.
—Vulture, 15 Dec. 2023
What ineluctable vision, a vision writing was so far from comprehending?
—Rachel Cusk, Harper's Magazine, 10 Sep. 2023
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Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 11 Apr. 2024
Second, the history of third-party presidential candidacies is one of ineluctable failure.
—Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2024
A certain ineluctable logic governs this collision of worlds: television’s foremost fantasia of Birkin bags, spa days, private-jet travel, and real-life Malibu beach houses infiltrating the most plastic realm there is.
—Vulture, 15 Dec. 2023
What ineluctable vision, a vision writing was so far from comprehending?
—Rachel Cusk, Harper's Magazine, 10 Sep. 2023
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“Ineluctable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ineluctable. Accessed 2 Oct. 2024.
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